New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-28
CARRIED AWAY BY A STORM.
A FAMILY TAKEN FROM MOVING HOUSE.
THE PECULIAR WORK OF LIGHTNING on LONG
IsIANp-TEMPERATuRE AND RAINFALL.

creeks anu Drooke RAISED up their Danks,
much damage has been done. Fences and barns have
bean swept away The barn OF NJ. J. Cooley, In
Re ok Tiew-ave., carried away with six wagons
and two sleghs also the barn of George Dupree went
down stream and fell to pieces loss about $4,000.
! In Washington Valley, Stony Brook overtowed,
carry ing away FIVE bridges and two dams. The
house OF Louis Coddngton lifted from its ounda-
ton and started down the stream With his wife and
Two children in il. They were rescued from the
house with great difficulty by means OF ropes and
boats. The dam at Seeiey's paper mills at Scotch
Plains went out. carrying with it part OF the build
ing and the principal part of the machinery. The
damage is several thousand dollars.
thunder storm passed over Staten Island
shortly after m. yesterday. doing considerable
damage. The rain fell in torrents, dooding the
streets and causing many washonts A bolt of
lightning strucktbe bell tower OF ~. Marks Method
list Episcopal Church AT Pleasant Plains shstteripg
it and two large windows in the of the edifce
causing $1,000 damage. At the same time bolt
struck the chimney OF house occupied by Mr.
Esserboh ut Tottenville damaging the house to the
extentfof $4,000. A sail-boat anchored in Princes
Bay below Seguine Point owned 10y John Wyeuth
entirely destroyed. Postmaster Wood. 81
Totten vile, WAS severely injured by being thrown
from his wagon Tuesday night. His horse took
fright from the lightning
Pcarsars and Rockville Centre, where the lightning
played such fantastic freaks on Tuesday evening
two villages the Moniank division OF the Long
Island Railroad; the distance between them Is only
mile and quarter The electric fluid to have de-
scended upon both communities at the same instant OF
time striking house in each village and Telling to the
earth several men.
The greatest amount OF damage was done at Furnan's
which is In the village OF Pearsas far from the rail-
road station and close to the railroad track The hotel
is In two buildings bar and billiard room near the
track and dwelling house about seventynve feet in the
rear The connected by electric calls, one
for the house and in the house for the
bar-room. and the battery with which the two wires
necfe1 was in le n
wires running from roof 10 roof
AT o'c ock on Tuesday evening the train from Long
Island City had just drawn uto the station and there
crowd o! men sitting upon the piazza OF tho Fur
bar-room. There perhaps twelve men, aud
among them the proprietor Daniel :. Whmarth. an cd
Newl ork policeman. and his son, Robert young fellow
Of eight Ii had been raining in torrents for some
and there had been some silent flashes OF lightning
but there had not been single gow OF thunder and II
ii the belief OF every that the storm vas at some
distance big black Newfoundland dog named Watch
lying on the piazza but he had shown marked I'M
easress for some time and had OF TO the house and
hid himself in the cellar.
AT this moment there was n binding fash OF lightning
and roar OF thunder which sounded il the sky had
been torn in two Every the piazza felt as he
had been struck. and all remained snpohed for some
minutes. When they recovered eomprehen-
sion three OF the number were lying
PROSTATE the piazza, George Wimarte'
George Southland and Ierse Heart Messrs Southland and
quickly regaiueu
dashed in their faces. but Wilnarth remain insenbie
nor did lac revive until DIR. Hutchison had been sum
had advised the TO strip him and rub bis
skin vigorously with dry towels After two hours OF this
discipline he to himself IL WAS found that there
red marks under his PIT on his ght side ana
also upon his right shoulder ike burns Then from his
left nip his left foot there broad red stroak
and both the thigh and the foot badly swollen
George Southsrds right shoe had been robbed by the
lightning OF its strings. which were torn into small
pieces Ierse Heart knocked down and fell on the
back OF his head the fall producing severe headache
but the lighnIn left mark upon him.
/ After Robert wllmarth had been revived his
father began examine his barToOm TO
what had bapPeued The electric mud had
broken the mirror behind tho bar and
yet touched single bottle glass of tue scores
In front Of IT. Beyond the bar built Into the
wall separang the from the corridor leading
to the bliardrcom big ice chest This was moved
the barroom quarter Of an inch In tho corridor
the lgh thing struck the electric call and burned about
twenty feet paralne wire. then 1t Knocked off the
plasier the wall the electric call and darted up
to the upper large chamber over the three lower
rooms nd from this point travelled along the wires TO
the In the cellar where IL smashed one OF then
breaking glass jar aud ailo wing the suiphnrc acid TO
escape The poor Newfoundland dog had sought refuge
In this plare and had crow led under milk safe Hero
/ the lightning struck him, killing him instaouy.
Mrs wilmarh In the dining room above the cellar
and the secondary fash that killed dog made tho
flooring tremblc beneath her and gave her feet snch
shock that ief 10 her expression rs II she
had been lifted Ia the air By explosion The escaping
suphurc acid cellar sDeiled by her. aud she
thought house had been struck by thunderbot and
was on fire, but IL uBinjured
moi so tue barroom In the morning Mr. wilmarth dis.
been end. Every nail on thai side bore
evidence OF electrical visitation but the other ends OF tue
we're untouched All the lath and plaster be
hind these caphosrds was ripped out And there was nor
the building where tn plastering mad mol sni
| eraf nor
wood the planks Of the piazza where the SouhR
Wlmarth had bcsn standing yet his shoes were unin-
turcd pane OF glass upstairs was broken Tho cleo
trcy vsted the hinges OF the shutters on one side he
eSsinrs on that side The flagstaff at the
barroon building WAS nfty ooi high ard was .grnoun,
down the north side hallway, and then ran down the
into the grind The gilt ball knocked of and
carried some distance. probably ior IL has not ye'
40 old rare copper placed top of tine pole
when the gilt ball WAS abrcd 10 70. aud Mr. Nnhnrh
has offered reward OF dollar either for the ball or hn
All the men who the piazza have nuinbness In
their arms "A curious Earring sensation when theS
exert their muscles Mr. NilDarth said that even ~
slight an eIerton US mkng ms COWS ,po .o bon
George Ursnn. the swiichman who was IN me switching.
tower that evening i. Similar Jadtins rs h Tue
states lightning old not enter the tower as far
upon the lever nor did the Hash bind him did the
men the Furnan Hotel piazza
AT Rockville Centre the lightning struck the house Of
Benjamin. Pearsall which is Leased by G. r. iioyi tho
western Union operator The fund srnck the roof. ia.
molished q part OF the chimney III descending T. and
passed through the three OF the garrett tearing
strips out csSngs Then de,cended to Tie
roof of the piazza unsettng several boards From tho
piazza electric fluid passed through the rooms In the
lower smashed through the side wall
and we'll. which OF brick tearing out
two bricks easing about loot below the coping
MIRA and n lady friend who WAS with her had -n.
themselves In leather beds and from their point
OF security watched he vagarics 81 the lightning.
Charles X. Hicks. Brooklyn plumber who IL passing
the sumner Al Rockville coplfs was snoessa down =.
the aide Of the road paralyzed. remaining
for an hour Water poured on him and ice aud
brandy were applied externally aud internally. He Is
All right bufeels Earring shock whom he eIerts him
SELF
Edward Denton sitting on the piazza OF his own
cottage at Rockville Centre. when the Lightning strucE